Hannah Gartside

“She uses deadstock fabrics, clothes found in skips and op shops or given to her by friends, garments of dead relatives and fur from pets. For the artist, clothes are psychic objects that not only have history (a faded menstrual stain, the scent of a beloved) but presence; material has its own life… In this sense, the sculptures are about fabric itself, the singular way in which material is able to articulate the immaterial – a current of air, an undertow of desire. Fabric also has its own sound world and Gartside is listening to what it is saying, ‘pulsing, sighing, calling to us’.”

– Hannah Fink, Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art catalogue essay

Read: Hannah Gartside,  This Body Is Experiencing Pleasure Catalogue essay – Tiarney Miekus 2023

Read: Short story Frances, the moth – Hannah Gartside 2023

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Hannah Gartside – from the series ‘Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing’ 2015-19. Photography by Hannah Gartside.
Hannah Gartside – from the series ‘Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing’ 2015-19. Photography by Hannah Gartside.
Hannah Gartside ‘Fall/Winter 1986’ 2018, found scarves, blouses and necklaces, electroplated found shoes and bag, thread, fans, 405 cm x 252 cm x 32 cm. Exhibited in ‘Dress Code’, Museum of Brisbane, 2018. Photography by Louis Lim. Also included in the exhibition ‘Performing Textiles’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne 2019.
Hannah Gartside ‘Fall/Winter 1986’ 2018 (detail), found scarves, blouses and necklaces, electroplated found shoes and bag, thread, fans, 405 cm x 252 cm x 32 cm. Exhibited in ‘Dress Code’, Museum of Brisbane, 2018. Photography by Louis Lim. Also included in the exhibition ‘Performing Textiles’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne 2019.
Hannah Gartside ‘Fall/Winter 1986’ 2018 (detail), found scarves, blouses and necklaces, electroplated found shoes and bag, thread, fans, 405 cm x 252 cm x 32 cm. Exhibited in ‘Dress Code’, Museum of Brisbane, 2018. Photography by Louis Lim. Also included in the exhibition ‘Performing Textiles’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne 2019.
Hannah Gartside ‘Fall/Winter 1986’ 2018 (detail), found scarves, blouses and necklaces, electroplated found shoes and bag, thread, fans, 405 cm x 252 cm x 32 cm. Exhibited in ‘Dress Code’, Museum of Brisbane, 2018. Photography by Louis Lim. Also included in the exhibition ‘Performing Textiles’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne 2019.
Hannah Gartside ‘Illusion Quilt’ 2016-17, found wool crepe and plain-weave wool fabrics (gift of the Ridolfi family), wool wadding, thread, 115 cm x 95 cm x 13 cm. Exhibited at Fresh! 2017, Craft Victoria
Hannah Gartside ‘Illusion Quilt’ 2016-17, found wool crepe and plain-weave wool fabrics (gift of the Ridolfi family), wool wadding, thread, 115 cm x 95 cm x 13 cm. Exhibited at Fresh! 2017, Craft Victoria
Hannah Gartside (wall) ‘Desire Quilt’ 2016, plain-weave wool, wool crepe, and linen fabric, thread, cotton wadding, 180 x 180 cm. (floor) ‘Bloated Quilt Square’ 2016, synthetic fur fabric, cotton corduroy and calico fabric, thread, polyester stuffing, 75 x 75 x 4 cm (irreg). Exhibited in The Fun Room at Wangaratta Art Gallery, 2020. Photography by Chris Bowes.
Hannah Gartside ‘From Lucy, with love’ 2016, sewing thread and cat hair, 127 cm x 72 cm. Exhibited in the Wangaratta Art Gallery Contemporary Textile Award 2017. Photography by Kerry Leonard.